did you hear that? seacrest is on speed dial. he sure wise. congrats to pat sajak and such an impressive run. and way to go ryan, on your new gig. on that note, i wish you all a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. i ll see you at the end of tomorrow. of tomorrow we have some breaking news tonight from the new york times this evening, some reporting that makes a recently unearthed trump recording even more incredible. if you ve not yet heard it, nbc news has independently obtained the audio of former president trump and his bedminster unit new jersey golf club, essentially admitting to a crime. here is trump in july of 2021 telling a group of people that he still has classified information after leaving the white house, and then proceeding to destroy his own defense. he explicitly says on audiotape that he could have declassified this when he was president, but he did not. take a listen. isn t that amazin
this evening. alex wagner tonight starts right tonight with my good, friend alex wagner. ts righ thank you, chris, and thk you as always for joining us this hour. we have some breaking news tonight from the new york times this evening, some reporting that makes a recently unearthed trump recording even more incredible. if you ve not yet heard it, nbc news has independently obtained the audio of former president trump and his bedminster unit new jersey golf club, essentially admitting to a crime. here is trump in july of 2021 telling a group of people that he still has classified information after leaving the white house, and then proceeding to destroy his own defense. he explicitly says on audiotape that he could have declassified this when he was president, but he did not. take a listen. isn t that amazing? this totally wins my case. except it is highly confidential this was done by the military and given to me. i think that we can probably do that, yes? we ll have to
support managements conclusion about the important portland protest, such as by linking the protests to antifa, despite the fact that overwhelming intelligence regarding the motivations for affiliations of the violent protesters, didn t exist. following those protests, an internal review at dhs said that intelligence committee officials were too zealous in trying to prove racial justice protests were part of an antifa conspiracy. the evidence simply didn t exist. instead of redirecting its attention towards real domestic threats, like right wing extremism, the department of homeland security decided that they would just investigate everybody a little bit less. the report describes a pendulum swing over the intel community that had a chilling effect on reporting and information about january 6th. quote, they thought that almost everything was reportable during the portland protests, but were hesitant, or fearful through airport information related to january 6th events.
yesterday, they would ve been treated very differently than the mob of thugs that stormed the capitol. we all know that that s true. it is unacceptable. totally unacceptable. according to the senate report, in the lead up to january 6th, the intelligence community focused intensely on black led racial justice protests while effectively ignoring threats from right-wing domestic terrorists. in the summer of 2020, just a few months before the attack, protests erupted across the country over the killing of george floyd. according to the senate report, during those protests, intelligence leadership was particularly focused on civil unrest in portland. everything relating to it was treated as being urgent. intelligence collectors were pressured to find evidence to support management s conclusion about the important portland protest, such as by linking the protests to antifa, despite the fact that overwhelming intelligence regarding the